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The max dose for neo in my facility is 180 mcg/min. Docs will typically allow up to 200 mcg/min though.

I'm just curious as to how other nurses in the country deal with different levels of code status'. In my hospital (in Ohio), our patients are either a full code, DNR-CCA, or DNR-CC. Full code: I'm sure that we can all agree on what a full code means!...

There is a place in our computer charting system we use (called EPIC) that has almost exactly what was described in the original post. You can easily see all of the notes, the initial H&P, the consult notes, progress notes, everything in one scre...

Yep, this is pretty much what we do in our CCU as well.

So I got a flight nursing interview coming up and am super excited and nervous at the same time! I am looking for any advice I can get about the interviewing process. I know there will be a written test and a mock patient scenario. I am curious as to...

So, I know that in most situations, it's just the 2 of you out on a scene with a critically sick/injured patient. What do you do if u get out on a scene and you disagree with your partner on how to care for this patient? I realize you're both gonna b...

So no replies... I am pretty comfortable with the interviewing process in general...as far as preparing for the questions that may be asked. I was just hoping someone could give me insight into what type of knowledge they expected you to know durin...

I work in a CCU and am getting assigned a nursing student for 10 weeks to precept. This is her last quarter of her BSN degree, and she's spending it with me working my hours for credit. I've done this once before with someone for 10 wks and then a fe...

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I just seen a thread posted about this, but what I'm typing in regards to is a somewhat different situation. I am a single parent getting full custody of my son back this summer. (I was a very young teen mom.) The thing is that I work nights. When s...

Yeah, try using the endings of the names of the drugs if you can... like the above post said with "pril"... also "lol" are beta blockers. Focus a lot on your cardiac drugs, know if they're alpha 1, beta 1, etc. (beta-blockers, anti-arrhythmic drugs l...

We get $3/hr for on call, but it's for the entire 12 hrs. If we get called in, it's just regular pay for me as well, no time and a half. And unfortunately, if I was the only one called off in the morning, I'm not aloud to refuse being on call, it's m...

Always have a 2nd nurse at the bedside with you with the initial pull. Then once everything is stablized, they can go as long as you have the call light handy! :) My thing is this: .... Have the 2nd nurse find the pedal pulse on the extremity with t...

I would assume an electrical engineer makes pretty decent money and required a bit of education to get. So what made you think about changing careers? What about nursing got you interested? There's waaaaaay too much to give you ALL of the info needed...

I don't have any experience w/ long term care, but something I did in nursing school helped me TONS w/ the med situation. Most places where you work have several meds that are fairly common. I made up a sheet w/ the most common meds I came across and...

We have coumadin teaching at our hospital for anyone that is new to starting coumadin, or just for anyone that needs additional teaching. However, nursing doesn't do the education; our ICU pharmacist does the coumadin teaching, which I thinks makes a...

Have a question about my patient's rhythm that ties in w/ all this discussion. My guy has normal p-waves, HR 60's, regular QRS, but the QRS is 0.16. He actually has an ICD/pacer, but there are no pacer spikes visible in any of the leads on our monito...

We're a decent sized hospital with several ICU's, but not a trauma center. Our ratios are 2:1 for a normal assignment... Nightshift sometimes gets the short end of the stick if they're short with 3:1, but it's not that common. If we have a pt on a ba...

I learned "Venous, Penis" The venous sheath is closer to the genital area than the arterial one is.

Sheath pulls after a percutaneous cardiac intervention are pretty neat. Holding both hands/fists/sometimes your whole body on the patient's groin to stop the femoral artery from spurting isn't always easy! And there's a bunch of things you need to be...

There is great information on here. I'm thinking about appying to UC's CRNA program in a year or two. I live in the Dayton area, not sure if I'll commute or move, but I'm pretty sure I'll live in the Dayton area after graduation. I'm just looking fo...

Yes I have insurance with NSO. But no, fortunately, I have not had to use it. Being the first to respond, I'm hoping that no one's had any horrific experiences with NSO!! Cuz I can only imagine that it would have to be horrible enough to have to eve...

Hi, I was hired into CCU as a new grad with no previous experience at all on an ICU floor. I've been there a little over a year now, and I wouldn't have done it any differently. I absolutely love it! I just asked tons and TONS of questions during my...

In the CCU I work in, when we pull a sheath, we hold manual pressure x 25-30 min and apply wedge for 6-10 hrs depending on physician. Recently, something called a Chito-Seal has been introduced to us. Supposedly, they get platalet aggregation to occ...

So there's "acute"... And there's "chronic." I got that. But what really is "acute-on-chronic" ?? I've heard the term with renal and respiratory issues and just wondered what the difference is between either acute or chronic.